When a child can understand and regulate their own emotions, they have the very tool they need to have better relationships and learning experiences so they can succeed in school and in life. Encompassing Dr. John Gottoman’s Emotion Coaching Model, we recognise the role adults play in supporting a child’s emotional regulation, and how they can respond and teach children this critical skill.

Many kindergarten and preschool classrooms set up calming corners to help children regulate emotions, but they are often ineffective. This seminar teaches how to use them to build self-regulation skills, covering mindset, methods, guidelines, sensory tools, and strategies for active calming.

Engaging in quality conversations with young children boosts their neurological, cognitive, social, and emotional development. This workshop provides practical tools for educators to enhance language development, empathy, social skills, complex thinking, and problem-solving. Topics include tone, questions, tips for short conversations, listening strategies, and scaffolding of learning.

Building effective partnerships with families maximises positive outcomes for children. This two-hour workshop covers strategies for trust-building, inviting collaboration, reducing defensiveness, encouraging cooperation, keeping the child’s needs central, and active listening skills for high-emotion situations.

The Circle of Security helps educators understand and respond to children’s needs, fostering security and strengthening connections. This two-hour session highlights the importance of emotional connection, covers key concepts like supporting exploration and autonomy, and provides a reflective space for educators to enhance their practices and build secure relationships.

This workshop deepens educators’ understanding of how trauma impacts development—and offers practical strategies to support a child’s self-regulation, impulse control, problem-solving and social skills. Educators enhance their ability to create an environment where children feel safe, secure, included and engaged.

Educators play a crucial role in fostering successful peer relationships, which boost self-esteem, belonging, and life satisfaction. This four-hour workshop offers practical strategies and a framework for teaching social skills and using conflicts to teach assertiveness, problem-solving, perspective-taking, and impulse control.

Children aren’t born with ‘executive function’ skills such as impulse control, problem-solving, empathy and emotional control; skills which are crucial for successful learning and positive behaviours.  In this program, early childhood educators learn how to use practical strategies drawn from Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model to support the development of executive skills and calmer classrooms.

This program invites educators to reflect on their perceptions of children’s behaviour. It highlights the link between mindset and inclusive education, emphasising that negative views of children hinder nurturing relationships and increase burnout risk. By challenging these mindsets, educators can foster children’s healthy social and emotional development.

This program guides educators in understanding the critical role of sensitively attuned adult interactions in a child’s learning and growth. Discover how to promote secure attachment relationships with children and foster their development through responsive caregiving.

Supports educators in creating a learning environment that instills feelings of safety and security, and promotes a child’s overall wellbeing and growth. Explore the powerful role that mindset and intention play in responding to a child’s behaviour, emotional needs and potential, and learn practical behaviour support strategies.

Conscious Discipline is one of the most powerful and transformational self-regulation programs that we’ve come across. We’re here as guides, walking alongside your team as they study and begin to put key concepts into practice. As your team delves into waves of invaluable material over 12 months, we come together to discuss, reflect and celebrate successes.